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I am back!

Wow, what a trip. Gentle hills covered in tidy vineyards rose and fell in the embrace of a soft, cool mist in Burgundy. Each vine groaned under the weight of fat and green grapes, on the verge of turning purple and ripe.
Every now and again a turreted chateau soared over the landscape, a vigilant sentinel [...]

Spring in Sardinia

I have just returned from the most luxuriant Spring I have ever experienced. After a mild, wet winter, north-eastern Sardinia was in full bloom, and what a bloom. The colours were dazzling—the vivid yellow of mimosa and gorse, the pale purple of topped lavender, the candid white of rock rose, against tall verdant grasses, deep [...]

Away we go

And we are off! We are going to spend Easter in northern Sardinia, where we are going to visit the home of Italian Independence War leader Giuseppe Garibaldi (who happens to be one of Niccolo’s heroes at the moment). We have a family story linked to Garibaldi, as my ancestors on my maternal grandfather’s side [...]

Gearing up for the party

It is crafting galore chez Leafdays. I’m getting ready for Easterand making chocolate eggs and mini chocolates (which were supposed to be mini eggs, but I don’t have the mould so, voilá, I made mini blobs instead). I am still not very good at tempering chocolate, but improving.
And of course, I am gearing up to [...]

Photo time!

Whoo-hoo, school has started! That means more time for me to work, do some creative stuff and plan my big idea. I have been playing with the scheme in my head for quite a while now, but haven’t really had much time to do anything practical with it. But if I pull it off, it [...]

A holiday after the holidays

Phew! It has been an intense month, a whirlwind of Paris, Disneyland, London, Legoland, new museums and old parks, Milan, now Florence. We have travelled, eaten, taken rides, grown (some of us vertically, others horizontally), had an inordinate amount of fun…and worked and planned. To avoid depriving the children of my presence during their waking hours, [...]

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